Should I create another channel or expand it's vocation?

My YT channel started with gaming, it is extremely small, a dozen videos and only one with 3000 views. I just started to film with an action camera and am going into car vlog. So here is my dilema...if I keep both content up there, when I reack 10k views YT will probably reject my request for monetization, right?
My worry is that my branding is everywhere, Instagram, FB, Twitter...so I would have to start a brand new one of I split the channel. Could I just tweak my current branding and expand it into vlogging and gaming?